solypsa
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| Step up transformer recommendation Quite a few good, sub $1500, 1:20 choices out there from Cinemag, Lundahl, Jensen, Sculpture A, Audio Creative, etc. Sculpture A comes in a 1:15 as well... As Mike said...the Emia is absolute top shelf ;) | |
| When do you know.... Hard to know until you get there...and by 'there' I mean find an arm + cart match that does allow it all to happen ;) I wouldn't personally consider carts known to work best on high mass &\or steel arms in this case. Maybe that's stating t... | |
| MM Phone Preamp for DL103 (Already have a stepup) @dhcod My pleasure :) If you end up in a bind I can arrange to send you a demo of the AudioSpecials Phonolab that I represent, but I figured you were looking for a lower cost option while you get your Lamm worked on! Slightly OT: what upgrades a... | |
| MM Phone Preamp for DL103 (Already have a stepup) Presuming this is a placeholder for the Lamm , a Hagerman pre would do the job very well. Or if you are considering a challenger what about the Le Phono from Ana? | |
| Linear Power Supply? SMPS technology may he applied to a high end power supply. Iirc CS Port uses them ( although they are run by a retired industrial power supply engineer )...but in general it seems a decent LPS is the easiest way to get into a better quality PS. Y... | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? OK, in the absence of budget indications, two ideas, new product, table and phono: 3-4x price increase - STST Motus IIDQ+ Audiospecials Phonolab. Caveat is that I sell both this table and phono in North America. A few tonearm options.. 10-20x... | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Not sure where this thread is going versus the original question...but if the new question is 'do higher quality turntable systems sound better than what OP has' the answer is YES, costs and diminishing returns aside. Top Micro, Top Technics, CS P... | |
| Phono preamp advice Current production Hagerman Trumpet MC. Its $89 over your budget but free shipping. Made in Hawaii, Hagerman has been making very high value phono for many years now. | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? @chungjh for all I know the system /room are working fine but as noted above not the usual space for a dipole. If you are happy with how its working I would stand by my first post. Controlled directivity, and corner or rear wall boundary speaker... | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Starting at turntable: Tonearm upgrade. Triplanar, Schroder CB. Depends how many armboard options can he found. Cart upgrade when time comes. Phono preamp. Big Allnic? Audiospecials Phonolab? Lamm? Used Klyne 7? | |
| Choosing a cartridge for new turntable Phono preamp sorted for the move to lower output carts? | |
| inexpensive phono pre amp Hagerman | |
| Practicality of reversing frequency response curve of phono cartridge / stylus You could use DSP for your record curve ( which you need to adjust to a number of settings for old mono and 78 anyway ) and then tweak eq to suit yourself based on some test record recording passes. Get a good mic preamp that you can load at ... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Technics 80s low tech? Might want to reconsider what late 70s and early 80s tech was to turntable development and Technics role in that. Not to mention what they do now. There are tables I prefer in the sub $10k zone tho... | |
| Tonearm hardware shuffle - recomendations sought! Lots of great tonearms to buy, the 4pt is certainly one of them. You did not specify which Soundsmith cart. This will limit how specific recomends can be as the arm-cart relationship is far more important that the table-arm relation is. |